Lemon myrtle, bush tomato, Davidson’s plum, finger lime, Kakadu plum, riberry, quandong, mountain pepper, anise myrtle, wattleseed, mutries, lemon aspen, desert limes. How many of these have you heard of? How many would you recognise growing? How many have you tasted?

Don’t feel bad if your answers are: ‘some, not many, only one or two’. Despite their being part of our landscape, our knowledge about native foods is generally low.

I went along to two recent events focusing on native foods with the aim of increasing my knowledge, and I share what I’ve learned.